Umberto Eco Quotes

We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

Umberto Eco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016

Topics

RacismFeelingFar AwayKnowLiving

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Robert Kiyosaki

BusinessBadRealEmergeTimes

During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.

Angela Duckworth

ServiceFocusSchoolSisterHomeless

We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.

Andy Hertzfeld

WritingInformationDownPersonal

I get to advocate issues and ideas that I believe in.

Jeb Bush

IdeasBelieveI BelieveI Believe In

Man is such an amazing animal, and the possibilities are infinite for each person.

Stellan Skarsgard

ManAnimalAmazingPossibilities

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

Sloane Crosley

StyleBestParentingDayWomanBook

I don't listen to the albums that I make, and I don't listen to a lot of music as a whole.

Sia

MusicListenWholeMakeLotAlbums

It's great fun being an academic because you have a certain licence to be a bit of a joker.

Mary Beard

GreatFunYouAcademicJokerBeing

Our life may look glamorous, but we scream at the kids, and I have to tell Jamie to tidy up if we have guests coming over.

Louise Nurding

LifeLookOverTidyTellGlamorous

I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.

Brandi Chastain

FamilyGreatTimeMenFunThought

People don't understand how long it really takes to find beats. Sometimes they're not all the way there, but it's elements in them I love. Then I get to take them to get chopped up. Ye got to cook over a few of them.

Pusha T

LovePeopleLongFindSometimesWay

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

Pope Francis

PositiveWomenFocusMenNegative

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